Holiday cards weren't always plastered with the toothy grins of your second cousin's three festively dressed children. Go back a century or two, and you'll find people had a more bizarre, sometimes inappropriate, sense of the yuletide spirit.

Circa 1890. | (Historia/REX/Shutterstock)

If you're looking for some out-of-the-box ideas for your annual warm wishes this year, enjoy these outlandish holiday cards from the last two centuries.